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Date:      Thu, 9 Jun 2011 12:41:01 -0600
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Long Day's Journey into <Bleep>
Message-ID:  <20110609184101.GB33714@guilt.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <20110609170519.GB42160@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
References:  <20110609005656.GA9183@thought.org> <20110609035313.GA30448@guilt.hydra> <20110609170519.GB42160@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>

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On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:05:19AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 08 June 2011:
> >=20
> > I think I've just had ports die one by one on a switch until it no long=
er
> > worked.  I don't think I've ever had the whole thing go poof for no
> > evident reason.
>=20
> I have, twice.  Both times it was a Linksys switch, too.  Just suddenly,
> no network.  After the second one, I decided to switch (har) to a Netgear
> GS116.  Haven't had any trouble with it so far (knocks on head), but I've
> only had it about a year.

I've been a little leery of Netgear switches after that little episode at
the colocation facility where the BigIron switch was taken down by the
Netgear's freak-out while unplugging the fiber optic line, but in truth I
don't have enough experience with Netgear to know whether that was just
some kind of bizarre one-time deal or a problem with Netgear.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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